《2020-2021学年高中选修八Unit4Pygmalion~Unit5Meetingyourancestors英语二学生用》由会员分享，可在线阅读，更多相关《2020-2021学年高中选修八Unit4Pygmalion~Unit5Meetingyourancestors英语二学生用（7页珍藏版）》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、1 2020-2021 学年高二下学期训练卷 选修八 Unit4 Pygmalion Unit5 Meeting your ancestors 英语（二） 一、阅读理解 A Film has properties that set it apart from painting, sculpture, novels, and plays. It is also, in its most popular and powerful form, a story telling medium that shares many elements with the short story and the n
2、ovel. And since film presents its stories in dramatic form, it has even more in common with the stage play: Both plays and movies act out or dramatize, show rather than tell what happens. Unlike the novel, short story, or play, however, film is not handy to study; it cannot be effectively frozen on
3、the printed page. The novel and short story are relatively easy to study because they are written to be read. The stage play is slightly more difficult to study because it is written to be performed. But plays are printed, and because they rely heavily on the spoken word, imaginative readers can con
4、jure up at least a pale imitation of the experience they might have been watching a performance on stage. This cannot be said of the screenplay, for a film depends greatly on visual and other nonvisual elements that are not easily expressed in writing. The screenplay requires so much “filling in” by
5、 our imagination that we cannot really approximate the experience of a film by reading a screenplay, and reading a screenplay is worthwhile only if we have already seen the film. Thus, most screenplays are published not to read but rather to be remembered. Still, film should not be ignored because s
6、tudying it requires extra effort. And the fact that we do not generally “read” films does not mean we should ignore the principles of literary or dramatic analysis when we see a film. Literature and films do share many elements and communicate many things in similar ways. Perceptive film analysis re
7、sts on the principles used in literary analysis, and if we apply what we have learned in the study of literature to our analysis of films, we will be far ahead of those who do not. Therefore, before we turn to the unique elements of film, we need to look into the elements that film shares with any g
8、ood story. Dividing film into its various elements for analysis is a somewhat artificial process, for the elements of any art form, never exist in isolation. It is impossible, for example, to isolate plot from character: Events influence people, and people influence events; the two are always closel
9、y interwoven in any fictional, dramatic, or cinematic work. Nevertheless, the analytical method uses such a fragmenting technique for ease and convenience. But it does so with the assumption that we can study these elements in isolation without losing sight of their interdependence or their relation
10、ship to the whole. 1. What is mainly discussed in the text? A. The uniqueness of film. B. The importance of film analysis. C. How to identify the techniques a film uses. D. The relationship between film analysis and literary analysis. 2. Why is it not handy to study film? A. Because screenplays are
11、not as well written as literary works. B. Because a film cannot be effectively represented by a printed screenplay. C. Because a film is too complicated. D. Because publishers prefer to publish literary works. 3. From the third paragraph we learn that. A. the means by which we analyze a literary wor
12、k cannot be applied to the analysis of the film B. a good film and a good story have many elements in common C. we should not pay extra effort to study films D. using the principles of literary analysis makes no difference in film analysis 4. Why cant we divide film into various elements for analysi
13、s? A. Because these elements are interwoven with each other and cannot be separated. B. Because films cannot be written down and it is inconvenient to analyze them. C. Because films elements are too complicated. D. Because films need not to be analyzed in detail. B A “lost tribe” that reached Americ
14、a from Australia may have been the first Native Americans, according to a new theory. If proved by DNA evidence, the theory will break long-established beliefs about the southerly migration of people who entered America across the Bering Strait, found it empty and occupied it. On this theory rests t
15、he belief of Native Americans to have been the first true Americans. They would be classified to the ranks of escapee, beaten to the New World by Aboriginals(土著人) in boats. 此卷只装订不密封 班级姓名准考证号考场号座位号 此卷只装订不密封 班级姓名准考证号考场号座位号 2 To a European, this may seem like an academic argument, but to Americans it i
16、s a philosophical question about identity, Silvia Gonzales of Liverpool University said. Her claims are based on skeletons found in the California Peninsula of Mexico that have skulls quite unlike the broad Mongolian features of Native Americans. These narrow-skulled people have more in common with southern Asians, Aboriginal Australians and people of the South Pacific Region The bones, stored at the National Museum of Anthropology(人类学) in Mexico City, have been carbon-dated and one is 12,700 ye
